From "A History
of 14th Infantry" as written in the
104th Organization Day Program, dated 1 Jul 65.

The history of the Fourteenth
United States Infantry is long and honorable. The first Fourteenth Infantrywas activated in July
1798, soon after the Revolutionary War but was disbanded in June of 1800.

The Fourteenth
was activated again at the outset of the War of 1812
and each time the unit fought -- at the Battle of Lundy's Lane, Niagara,
Frenchman's Creek, Ft. George, Beaver Dams, Chrystler's Field, DeCole's Mill,
Chippewa and Cook's Mill -- the hostile invasion force was checked. With Peace
secured in May of 1815, the unit was disbanded again.

Thirty two
years passed by before the Fourteenth Infantry was again called to arms in
1847, this time for duty in the Mexican War,
where the Regiment gallantly fought at the Battle of Contreras,
Churubusco, Molina
Del Rey, and Chapultepec.
In this fighting, the Fourteenth was supported by Engneers under the command
of Lieutenants named Beauregard and McClellon -- and by a battery of Artillery
commanded by Lieutenant T. J. Jackson (later known as the Great Stonewall
Jackson) -- and at one time was led in a Battle by a Captain Robert E. Lee.

At the end of
the Mexican War, with the southwestern border secure, the Fourteenth Infantry
was again mustered out of service; however, the dark clouds of the Civil War
were on the horizon. When the storm finally broke in 1861, the Fourteenth was
again called to colors to fight against the Confederacy. This it did with
conspicuous gallantry and our colors bear twelve battle streamers reflecting
participation in some of the most famous battles of the Civil war; including
Manassas,
Antietum,
Fredricksburg,
Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg, The Wilderness,
Cold
Harbor, and
Petersburg.

At the end of
the Civil War, at a review of the Union Army in Richmond, Virginia, General
Meade assigned the place of honor in the review, the Right of the Line, to the
Fourteenth Infantry; stating that the Regiment foremost in battle deserved to
be foremost in honors. Thus, the "Right
of the Line"
became the official motto of our Regiment and we bear it proudly on our
colors and on the Regimental Crest.

In 1865, the
Fourteenth Infantry was moved to the new territories opening up for settlement
in the western portions of our nation and to aid in putting down the numerous
bloody uprisings of the Commanche, Sioux and Apache Indians. Throughout the
latter part of the 1800's, the Fourteenth Infantry distinguished itself in
some of the more bitter and hand-fought campaigns of the Indian Wars: Arizona, 1866,
Wyoming, 1871, Little Big Horn and Bannocks.

There are no
streamers on our colors to symbolize the service to our country by four
companies of the Fourteenth which, in 1878, were sent to Alaska where they
dispersed two companies of Royal Canadian Mounted Police who sought to hold a
part of Alaska for England.

With the
declaration of the Spanish-American War
in 1878, the Fourteenth moved out for action in the Philippines. After landing
at Cavite Arsenal, they moved against Manila, paticipating in the the seige of
that city and the eventual capture of it. The Red Castle on our Regimental
Crest is emblematic of that action in the Spanish-American War.

1900 Pictograph of 14th Infantry in Philippines
Action

The end of the
war with Spain did not end hostilities for the Fourteenth Infantry in the
Philippines, however. The guerrilla leader, Aquinaldo, and his men rose
against American occupation forces and had to be subdued in the battles of
Laguna de Bay, Manila, Zapote river, Cavite, and other lesser engagements of
the Luzon Campaign.

In 1900,
The Boxer
Rebellion in China
took the Fourteenth deeper into the Far East. Our unit defeated the Chinese
rebels in the battle of Yang-tsun and again a few days later in the battle for
Peking where the Fourteenth, braving fire from above, scaled the walls of the
city and overcame it's defenders. Here the Fourteenth Infantry added it's
"Golden Dragon", the Chinese symbol of power, to it's Regimental Crest.

After the
expedition ot China, the unit moved to Vancouver Barracks and trained for
deployment to Europe during the First Wold War; however, the Armistice cut
short the fourteenth's proposed move to that theater. Instead, in 1920, the
Fourteenth was sent to Panamawhere it remained for the next
23 years securing the Panama Canal area.

Jungle-wise as
the Fourteenth was after 23 years in the tropics, when the time came during
World War II for the big push in Europe, our unit was sent there rather than
to the jungles of the South Pacific. In Europe, the Fourteenth was assigned to
the 71st
Divisionand fought
from Normandy to the Danube, claiming a good share of the 80,000 German
prisoners captured by the 71st Division.

During the Korean War,
the Fourteenth Infantry, then assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, fought
in some of the hardest battles. For over two years, it was engaged in every
major campaign, earning five battle streamers and the Korean Presidential Unit
Citation, embroidered "MUNSAN-NI". Three members of the Fourteenth won the
Congressional Medal of Honor in Korea and sixty-five percent of it's men
received the Combat Infantryman Badge.

In 1954, after
the Korean War truce, our unit, still a part of the 25th Infantry Division,
arrived at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Here the Fourteenth Infantry, now
organized into the 1st and 2nd Battalions, trains with the 25th Infantry
Division in it's role as the Strategic Reserve Force of the United States Army
Pacific. In addition to training for the type of combat which might one day
require the use of entire unit, the Fourteenth Infantry currently sends
volunteer helicopter machine gunners under the 25th Infantry Division's
"Operation Shotgun" program to various Army aviation units now engaged in
combat operations in South Viet Nam.

Our unit's
history is a proud one, a history fraught with hardship, sacrifice and
bravery. Our duty is clear and with God's help, we shall keep our place on the
"Right of the Line".

[The Unit
History of the 14th Infantry ends here because the 14th was still in Hawaii at
the time this was written.]